Senior Data Scientist, Simulation Capacity Optimization

Waymo is an autonomous driving technology company with the mission to be the world's most trusted driver. Since its start as the Google Self-Driving Car Project in 2009, Waymo has focused on building the Waymo Driver—The World's Most Experienced Driver™—to improve access to mobility while saving thousands of lives now lost to traffic crashes. The Waymo Driver powers Waymo’s fully autonomous ride-hail service and can also be applied to a range of vehicle platforms and product use cases.

The Waymo Driver has provided over ten million rider-only trips, enabled by its experience autonomously driving over 100 million miles on public roads and tens of billions in simulation across 15+ U.S. states.

Our Simulation team is at the heart of this mission, enabling us to safely and rapidly iterate on the Waymo Driver. We run billions of miles of simulations, creating a massive and complex demand for technical infrastructure resources (CPU, GPU, TPU, Storage).

We are establishing a new team called CORPIO (Sim Eval Capacity Operations, Resource Planning, Infrastructure Optimization). This team is tasked with building a critical capability for Waymo: data-driven, strategic capacity planning and resource optimization. We are looking for a Quant Software Engineer at the L6 level to bridge the gap between sophisticated mathematical modeling and production-scale infrastructure automation. You will be responsible for building the technical systems that forecast demand, optimize resource allocation, and automate infrastructure management, ensuring our simulation environment is both high-performance and cost-effective.

• Infrastructure Modeling & Automation:
  Design and build production-grade systems and pipelines to automate capacity planning, demand management, and quota allocation.
• Quantitative Forecasting:
  Implement and maintain sophisticated models for infrastructure demand forecasting, incorporating architectural shifts, peak loads, and time-shifting opportunities.
• Resource Optimization Algorithms:
  Develop and deploy algorithms to optimize resource utilization across a heterogeneous fleet (CPU, GPU, TPU) and diverse supply models (on-demand vs. reserved).
• Data Pipeline Engineering:
  Architect and maintain robust data pipelines that ingest infrastructure telemetry and demand driver signals to feed forecasting and optimization engines.
• Outcome Analysis:
  Build systems to translate resource plans into tangible outcomes (e.g., queue lengths, user demand fulfillment) and develop attribution models for capacity imbalances.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  
  Partner with Simulation, Infrastructure, and Finance teams to translate business requirements into technical specifications and automated solutions.
• Technical Leadership:
  Provide technical guidance on the intersection of quantitative modeling and systems engineering, mentoring junior members and influencing the technical roadmap for CORPIO.

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience solving data science problems, or a PhD in a quantitative field and 3+ years of industry experience
• Expertise using advanced statistical methods in an applied setting; familiarity with ML systems/models
• Strong background in quantitative methods, such as optimization, statistical modeling, or time-series analysis.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Python/SQL/R data analysis libraries and packages

• PhD or Master's degree in a quantitative field
• Experience in Capacity Engineering or Infrastructure Optimization at scale.
• Familiarity with ML-driven forecasting and optimization techniques.
• Experience with financial modeling or…